Side by side
South Korea and United States compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
4 July 1776 — The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
- Shared indicators
- 42
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 1
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1945 CE
Division at the 38th parallel
The peninsula is split into Soviet and American occupation zones along the 38th parallel, setting the stage for two rival Korean states.
Politics & Power · from the South Korea chronicle · Division, the Korean War, and Authoritarian Rebuilding · The Korean War and Japan's Recovery, Korea (history)